Once Upon a Time in the West

Original Title: C'era una volta il West

Director: Sergio Leone

Writers: Dario Argento; Bernardo Bertolucci; Sergio Donati; Sergio Leone

Music Composed and Conducted by: Ennio Morricone

Producer: Fulvio Morsella

Keywords: Spaghetti Western

A woman's family is murdered by orders of a railroad baron who coverts their land for its water. The widow comes to claim her property; a man with a harmonica stalks the assassin for his own personal reasons. Sergio Leone's finest western. Entered into the National Film Registry in 2009.

"OUATITW in particular is a huge and wonderfully vulgar overstatement of the already overstated archetypes of American film westerns. In this movie gunshots seem as loud as atomic blasts; close-ups seem to go on for minutes at a stretch, gunfights for hours; and the streets of Leone's peculiar little Western towns all seem as wide as freeways." -- Stephen King

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